Hardware news and review site AnandTech is shutting down after 27 years. "The time has come for AnandTech to wrap up its work, and let the next generation of tech journalists take their place within the zeitgeist," Editor-in-Chief Ryan Smith said. AnandTech was founded in 1997 by then-14-year-old Anand Lal Shimpi, who led the site until his retirement from journalism.